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At least the money is going back to the stars. And gees, don't you think the people that stood over that smokin scanner for hours at a time deserve something for their work? Or maybe the geek that wrote the PHP? I imagine the provider of the server space and the bandwidth would like some cash too.
$3 for a 200 page PDF is a pretty good price in my opinion. Especially since you can not get the contents from anywhere else.
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He typed in the name of the site and the URL and got the name wrong. Genius!
[H]ard|OCP is the correct spelling! But even if you wanted to leave off the goofy characters it would still be HardOcp...
This is very excusable... if Hemos was up late watching the superbowl. Keep up the good work guys. You are still the best geek site around!
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I felt the same way as you regarding ADD. It doesn't really exist. As a matter of fact, I had the exact same argument: How can you not be able to accomplish something at school or work, yet play games into the middle of the night with unbreakable concentration?
Games are short term goals. The longest games last an hour or two at most. And even then, there are even shorter term goals within a single game. One could argue that FPS games have the shortest term goals of any game out there. Every second that you haven't been killed, you have reached a goal. If you happen to kill a person AND not get killed, you get two goals in one second! But I digress.
Work, on the other hand, often requires longer term goals. You have to spend many hours dedicated to one task to achieve a goal. One trick is to break that long term goal into several short term goals. Another trick is to take goals off of your task list. This is the one that I needed to do. I was getting so upset with myself for not working, when I thought I should be that it caused many internal problems. You have to know when to play and when to work. You must make it OK to enjoy life a little. I would always feel guilty about playing until I decided that it was OK to play online for a couple of hours.
The problem is not just one little thing that can be fixed with a pill. It takes training and self discipline... and a pill. For over 20 years I tried to convince myself that I did not have ADD, that I was just lazy. I joined the U.S. Navy to prove it to myself. Guess what? I have ADD. I need a pill to help my brain concentrate on one thing at a time. I sought help from a counselor, who then sent me to see a psychiatrist for one reason, and one reason only; to get a prescription for my ADD. You see, I am a smart guy, I have drive and determination, I am good at video games, but no matter how much I wanted it, or how much I tried, I could not stay focused on a single task for any length of time. I walked into the psychiatrist's office and we started chatting. Within 10 minutes she tells me that she knows what my problem is and has only one question to ask. She asked me, "So, how much coffee do you drink a day?" "Well, I don't drink coffee, I drink Dr. Pepper. And I drink about 3 liters a day."
Come to find out, caffeine has the same effect on the brain as Ritalin. There are actually about 7 different types of ADD, each with a different symptoms and treatments. The severe cases require Ritalin. Mild cases require exercise and counseling. I fall somewhere in the middle and take a different kind of medication. I am down to 1 liter of Dr. Pepper and two pills a day:) I will be on the two pills for the rest of my life. Which really stinks, but I am up for promotion, so I guess it doesn't stink to bad.
My advice, don't waste your life fighting a losing battle. Go see a counselor and find out how to fight your particular problem. I didn't want to admit to myself that I had ADD and it cost me some of the best years of my life.
You are right. But more specifically Google. When my operating system acts more like Google does, then we will have a break through. I type Java and it shows me the files I hit most often that are associated with Java.
XP's new Start menu is a step in the right direction. This feature is something that I would love to have built into my applications directly. When I open WinAmp, I want it to play my favorite songs, and mix it up from time to time.
Maybe it is just a new sort order that we need... Sort by most visited.
Great!! Just what we need, more frustration. The difference between govt techies and commercial techies is pay, paper work and management. I know about so many govt projects that get canned 2 years and $30 million into it that I could write a small novel. I know about projects where the process isnt fully thought out: "We can automate this, put it on the web! Yeah, and then we have someone take that information, print it out and then re enter it into the mainframe!" They are effectively doubling the workload. If this happened in the corporate world all of the companies would go out of business...
Oh wait, that is what happened to all of the dot bombs. They didn't deliver what was promised or they didn't think through what they really wanted to do. What needs to be traded are the managers. Govt leadership needs to start looking at the bottom line the way corporate America does or America is going to be in bad bad bad shape in the future.
Social Security isn't in trouble because the govt continues to steal from their pot, SSA is in trouble because they blow millions upon millions of dollars on throw away projects. The bad part about this, is that not a single statesman will TOUCH SSA because it means death to future advancement.
Trade the managers out, you will get a bigger bang for your buck.
The funny thing that I see while reading the comments is the blasting of Clippy and the Dog for being cute. This group of people actually love and enjoy these little ai characters and build them for themselves. I see them in many different channels on IRC. The most notable one is purl. So, would it make you all feel better if Clippy reacted to ! commands and wasn't so cute? The functionality that these "bots" provide is not the greatest, but they are useful and are needed. Otherwise, purl wouldn't exist.
Oh, and how could one forget the greatest "bot" of them all? The computer from Star Trek. "Computer, where is Worf?"
You want these bots, You need these bots. If you don't like the manner in which I provide these bots, then why don't you sit at a keyboard and write one yourself?
So, after about 15 minutes of download install download install, I finally get a message from the Star Wars site: To view this you must have Quick Time Pro. Click here to upgrade.
Gees, another upgrade... off to Apple's site I go (again) and what's this? $29.95 ?!!? TO see a TRAILER!! SCREW THAT!!
Please, someone tell me that I am wrong, that I missed something, that I don't have to PAY to see a trailer. Please, because this is just killing me that Lucas would think his followers would PAY to see this trailer.
Obviously this is some sort of security system that watches a large amount of space. So we are talking either a Casino or park of some kind. If not, then these are the people to ask.
Also, is keeping all of the footage forever a requirement? Or just some of the footage? I would think you may want to keep the footage for a couple of days or weeks at most. If something requires footage to be kept longterm then you would move that from the harddrive to cdrom or dvd.
This is a job for a cluster of iMac's if I ever saw one:)
I seriously think the Everything http://www.everything2.com/ engine would be a great way to maintain documentation on a project. I know it isn't XML based but I am sure one could easily connect to the database and kick out the needed files and put them into XML. The meat of this gentleman's quesstion was "How do you link your documents?" Currently we link ours with Rational Requisite Pro. Which if anyone took the time to actually use it would be very beneficial. But what better tool for linking than Everything? I can easily add a link by adding brackets around a [link]. If I want to [link] to the [requirements] or a specific requirement [req1.4.2] or a use case [Authenticate User] I just add brackets.
I am preparing to start a new project. I may have to install [Everything] first to see if it will work. Just have to make a couple of rules like all requirements must have a [Requirements] link so that they can all be found. Or better yet, instead of using Person, Place, Idea or Thing you could use Requirements, Use-Cases, Test Cases etc... Interesting idea. Customize [E2] to be a requirements/documentation management system.
The Director is to blame for the story with holes. The Director is to blame for bad acting. The Director is to blame for all of those shots where the other characters are sitting and staring at the speaker and not doing anything else.
We all know that Mr. Irons is a great actor. I personally thought that Thora Birch was good in American Beauty. So why is the acting in this so bad? The director didn't have a clue.
Some of the stinkyness of this movie can be blamed on the studio for not supplying a good mentor for the first time director. I think they did a good job for the small budget and lack of directing experience. But it is still a stinker of a movie.
The high costs come from having to scrap large peices. Why not interconnect smaller peices to make one large peice. Basic Lego or JigSaw Puzzle strategy. One peice that will attach to any other type of peice. Then special peices for each of the borders. With 5 peices you could interconnect to make one large peice. To get a LARGER monitor, you just put more of the global peices in the center.
... Compared to Silly Valley. I am currently looking at houses in the Valley from DC and I am doing all that I can to get my new boss to let me tele-commute. They could pay me less and fly me out there weekly for less than I would want to live out there and it looks like that is what they are going to do.
... Now if I could just get them to hire the entire team out here...
Anyway, Salary is the topic so: I have the best of both worlds. I am getting a Silly Valley salary and live near DC. Out far enough that the cost of living is reasonable but close enough to be able to enjoy the ammenities of a large city.
Because he would be getting $1.5 BILLION instead of $150 Million from Bill. Their case did not have anything to do with being a monopoly, but if the judge says that they were keeping people from bettering their products then Steve may have had a case. Very interesting indeed.
There is already a technology that does just that. It is called X-10. I have a friend that has it installed in his house and can control his entire house from a computer. The technology speaks to different items through power cables in the house. You can find the FAQ Here.
We have successfully covered the topic if you are going to try and use fewer dollars. But if money were no object would you consider other technologies besides Apache/PHP/MySQL/Linux?
Such as Netscape/Cold Fusion/Oracle/Sun?
Besides not being able to call on the experience of all of you guys when the going gets tough, what are the other drawbacks besides the obvious (MONEY)?
MySQL is not a solution for me. It lacks many features that Sybase or Oracle provide (can you say TRANSACTIONS?). Netscape and Cold Fusion have better integration of security. Has a benchmark been done on PHP vs Cold Fusion? PHP seems to be able to handle Cold Fusion's role pretty well according to PHP's site.
Is the answer truely a mish mash of the both? Pay for Netscape for the SSL and Oracle for the STUD (I still like Sybase better) of a database that it really is, but go freeware where you can?
It would have been better in my opinion. Call me a pervert, but seeing Heather naked again (first time was in Boogie Nights) would have been wonderful. PG-13 as a rating for comedies sucks. I like comedies that are either RAW (Cheech & Chong) or CLEAN (Disney). Film companies trying to get both the adults and the kids with the PG-13 are not allowing either group to fully enjoy the film. There is no way I would take my 13-15 year old to see that movie.
And as an adult movie it was ruined by not being RAW enough.
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At least the money is going back to the stars. And gees, don't you think the people that stood over that smokin scanner for hours at a time deserve something for their work? Or maybe the geek that wrote the PHP? I imagine the provider of the server space and the bandwidth would like some cash too.
$3 for a 200 page PDF is a pretty good price in my opinion. Especially since you can not get the contents from anywhere else.
If you are in the market for some Ajax knowledge, you should check out Relevance LLC's reviews of Ajax books. A couple of smart guys. They have reviewed 7 books so far.
He typed in the name of the site and the URL and got the name wrong. Genius!
[H]ard|OCP is the correct spelling! But even if you wanted to leave off the goofy characters it would still be HardOcp...
This is very excusable... if Hemos was up late watching the superbowl. Keep up the good work guys. You are still the best geek site around!
I felt the same way as you regarding ADD. It doesn't really exist. As a matter of fact, I had the exact same argument: How can you not be able to accomplish something at school or work, yet play games into the middle of the night with unbreakable concentration?
:) I will be on the two pills for the rest of my life. Which really stinks, but I am up for promotion, so I guess it doesn't stink to bad.
Games are short term goals. The longest games last an hour or two at most. And even then, there are even shorter term goals within a single game. One could argue that FPS games have the shortest term goals of any game out there. Every second that you haven't been killed, you have reached a goal. If you happen to kill a person AND not get killed, you get two goals in one second! But I digress.
Work, on the other hand, often requires longer term goals. You have to spend many hours dedicated to one task to achieve a goal. One trick is to break that long term goal into several short term goals. Another trick is to take goals off of your task list. This is the one that I needed to do. I was getting so upset with myself for not working, when I thought I should be that it caused many internal problems. You have to know when to play and when to work. You must make it OK to enjoy life a little. I would always feel guilty about playing until I decided that it was OK to play online for a couple of hours.
The problem is not just one little thing that can be fixed with a pill. It takes training and self discipline... and a pill. For over 20 years I tried to convince myself that I did not have ADD, that I was just lazy. I joined the U.S. Navy to prove it to myself. Guess what? I have ADD. I need a pill to help my brain concentrate on one thing at a time. I sought help from a counselor, who then sent me to see a psychiatrist for one reason, and one reason only; to get a prescription for my ADD. You see, I am a smart guy, I have drive and determination, I am good at video games, but no matter how much I wanted it, or how much I tried, I could not stay focused on a single task for any length of time. I walked into the psychiatrist's office and we started chatting. Within 10 minutes she tells me that she knows what my problem is and has only one question to ask. She asked me, "So, how much coffee do you drink a day?" "Well, I don't drink coffee, I drink Dr. Pepper. And I drink about 3 liters a day."
Come to find out, caffeine has the same effect on the brain as Ritalin. There are actually about 7 different types of ADD, each with a different symptoms and treatments. The severe cases require Ritalin. Mild cases require exercise and counseling. I fall somewhere in the middle and take a different kind of medication. I am down to 1 liter of Dr. Pepper and two pills a day
My advice, don't waste your life fighting a losing battle. Go see a counselor and find out how to fight your particular problem. I didn't want to admit to myself that I had ADD and it cost me some of the best years of my life.
You are right. But more specifically Google. When my operating system acts more like Google does, then we will have a break through. I type Java and it shows me the files I hit most often that are associated with Java.
XP's new Start menu is a step in the right direction. This feature is something that I would love to have built into my applications directly. When I open WinAmp, I want it to play my favorite songs, and mix it up from time to time.
Maybe it is just a new sort order that we need... Sort by most visited.
This announcement now makes so much more sense!
Great!! Just what we need, more frustration. The difference between govt techies and commercial techies is pay, paper work and management. I know about so many govt projects that get canned 2 years and $30 million into it that I could write a small novel. I know about projects where the process isnt fully thought out: "We can automate this, put it on the web! Yeah, and then we have someone take that information, print it out and then re enter it into the mainframe!" They are effectively doubling the workload. If this happened in the corporate world all of the companies would go out of business...
Oh wait, that is what happened to all of the dot bombs. They didn't deliver what was promised or they didn't think through what they really wanted to do. What needs to be traded are the managers. Govt leadership needs to start looking at the bottom line the way corporate America does or America is going to be in bad bad bad shape in the future.
Social Security isn't in trouble because the govt continues to steal from their pot, SSA is in trouble because they blow millions upon millions of dollars on throw away projects. The bad part about this, is that not a single statesman will TOUCH SSA because it means death to future advancement.
Trade the managers out, you will get a bigger bang for your buck.
Which is rather humorous in and of itself since the artists STILL won't see a dime for each time one of their songs is played online.
The funny thing that I see while reading the comments is the blasting of Clippy and the Dog for being cute. This group of people actually love and enjoy these little ai characters and build them for themselves. I see them in many different channels on IRC. The most notable one is purl. So, would it make you all feel better if Clippy reacted to ! commands and wasn't so cute? The functionality that these "bots" provide is not the greatest, but they are useful and are needed. Otherwise, purl wouldn't exist.
Oh, and how could one forget the greatest "bot" of them all? The computer from Star Trek. "Computer, where is Worf?"
You want these bots, You need these bots. If you don't like the manner in which I provide these bots, then why don't you sit at a keyboard and write one yourself?
So, after about 15 minutes of download install download install, I finally get a message from the Star Wars site: To view this you must have Quick Time Pro. Click here to upgrade.
Gees, another upgrade... off to Apple's site I go (again) and what's this? $29.95 ?!!? TO see a TRAILER!! SCREW THAT!!
Please, someone tell me that I am wrong, that I missed something, that I don't have to PAY to see a trailer. Please, because this is just killing me that Lucas would think his followers would PAY to see this trailer.
Obviously this is some sort of security system that watches a large amount of space. So we are talking either a Casino or park of some kind. If not, then these are the people to ask.
:)
Also, is keeping all of the footage forever a requirement? Or just some of the footage? I would think you may want to keep the footage for a couple of days or weeks at most. If something requires footage to be kept longterm then you would move that from the harddrive to cdrom or dvd.
This is a job for a cluster of iMac's if I ever saw one
I seriously think the Everything http://www.everything2.com/ engine would be a great way to maintain documentation on a project. I know it isn't XML based but I am sure one could easily connect to the database and kick out the needed files and put them into XML. The meat of this gentleman's quesstion was "How do you link your documents?" Currently we link ours with Rational Requisite Pro. Which if anyone took the time to actually use it would be very beneficial. But what better tool for linking than Everything? I can easily add a link by adding brackets around a [link]. If I want to [link] to the [requirements] or a specific requirement [req1.4.2] or a use case [Authenticate User] I just add brackets.
I am preparing to start a new project. I may have to install [Everything] first to see if it will work. Just have to make a couple of rules like all requirements must have a [Requirements] link so that they can all be found. Or better yet, instead of using Person, Place, Idea or Thing you could use Requirements, Use-Cases, Test Cases etc... Interesting idea. Customize [E2] to be a requirements/documentation management system.
We all know that Mr. Irons is a great actor. I personally thought that Thora Birch was good in American Beauty. So why is the acting in this so bad? The director didn't have a clue.
Some of the stinkyness of this movie can be blamed on the studio for not supplying a good mentor for the first time director. I think they did a good job for the small budget and lack of directing experience. But it is still a stinker of a movie.
The high costs come from having to scrap large peices. Why not interconnect smaller peices to make one large peice. Basic Lego or JigSaw Puzzle strategy. One peice that will attach to any other type of peice. Then special peices for each of the borders. With 5 peices you could interconnect to make one large peice. To get a LARGER monitor, you just put more of the global peices in the center.
... Compared to Silly Valley. I am currently looking at houses in the Valley from DC and I am doing all that I can to get my new boss to let me tele-commute. They could pay me less and fly me out there weekly for less than I would want to live out there and it looks like that is what they are going to do.
... Now if I could just get them to hire the entire team out here...
Anyway, Salary is the topic so: I have the best of both worlds. I am getting a Silly Valley salary and live near DC. Out far enough that the cost of living is reasonable but close enough to be able to enjoy the ammenities of a large city.
Suburbia RULES!!
Summary: $80-100k or somewhere in between.
Because he would be getting $1.5 BILLION instead of $150 Million from Bill. Their case did not have anything to do with being a monopoly, but if the judge says that they were keeping people from bettering their products then Steve may have had a case. Very interesting indeed.
My suggestion. Fly to CA, meet a couple of guys in Stanford's MBA program, and have them introduce you to a couple of friends.
Good luck !!
There is already a technology that does just that. It is called X-10. I have a friend that has it installed in his house and can control his entire house from a computer. The technology speaks to different items through power cables in the house. You can find the FAQ Here.
Such as Netscape/Cold Fusion/Oracle/Sun?
Besides not being able to call on the experience of all of you guys when the going gets tough, what are the other drawbacks besides the obvious (MONEY)?
MySQL is not a solution for me. It lacks many features that Sybase or Oracle provide (can you say TRANSACTIONS?). Netscape and Cold Fusion have better integration of security. Has a benchmark been done on PHP vs Cold Fusion? PHP seems to be able to handle Cold Fusion's role pretty well according to PHP's site.
Is the answer truely a mish mash of the both? Pay for Netscape for the SSL and Oracle for the STUD (I still like Sybase better) of a database that it really is, but go freeware where you can?
Just looking for a couple of good opinions.
And as an adult movie it was ruined by not being RAW enough.
And the next step... Quake. Civ III. RoR.
Games games games games games games.....
Sad that all I can think about is gaming.